Authorities have charged professors from Northwestern University
and Oxford University with the murder of of hair stylist Trenton
Cornell-Duranleau in a Chicago apartment. Authorities found the man
dead with 47 stab wounds and cuts. The Guardian reported:
Chicago Police’s Commander Brendan Deenihan told a press conference
on Sunday there was instead a more…

In the midst of the revisionist wave to eradicate the nation’s
past, officials at Gettysburg Park have made quite clear that the
Pennsylvania monuments are there to stay. From USA Today: HANOVER,
Pa. — Despite national discourse on the appropriateness of
Confederate monuments, the ones in Gettysburg are not going
anywhere, according to…

I would like to expand upon Professor Jacobson’s excellent post on
Charlottesville, Reversal of Reality. He notes that the failure of
the American press to fairly report the truth — that both
sides were violent during the protest/counter-protest — goes
beyond mere criticism. True! But there is method to the current
media madness. I…

Some pro-choice professors at the University of Michigan have
decided that the best way to fight the pro-life movement is to
encourage abortionists to be vocal about the gruesome details of
the procedure. From Campus Reform: Professor Lisa A. Martin, et al.
published an article in the most recent issue of Social…

Does Joe Scarborough of MSNBC watch rival CNN? The question arises
because this morning, one wonders whether Joe had tuned into the
CNN segment we blogged about yesterday. A Reliable Sources panel
had floated a variety of scenarios, from a 25th Amendment process
to a “soft coup,” by which President Trump would…

Today’s solar eclipse isn’t the only eclipse to have been met with
fanfare. This ABC News coverage from 1979 left anchors awestruck.
From Mashable: It’s a 10-minute clip collection from ABC News’
coverage of the last large-scale total solar eclipse to be seen in
the lower 48 U.S. states. The event occurred…

This was a really bad week for freedom of speech and internet
freedom. As documented in my post Gathering Storms And Threats
to Liberty, corporations that operate the gateways to the internet,
such as domain registrars and services such as Cloudfare, have come
under pressure and have capitulated to drive the neo-Nazi
website…

There is a deserved reverence that applies across the board for the
men and women who gave their lives, many, unwillingly for a cause
they may or may not have championed. Alas… Chattanooga Mayor Andy
Berke announced Friday plans to “renounce its position as a
trustee” of a local Confederate Cemetery. According to…

Comedic legend Jerry Lewis has died at the age of 91. He shot to
fame with his teammate Dean Martin and gained notoriety in The
Nutty Professor. Most of the younger generations have come to known
him through his annual Labor Day telethon to raise money for
Muscular Dystrophy.
https://twitter.com/johnnykats/status/899321306448932864 From The
Hollywood Reporter: At…

This is a tad bit lengthy, but worthy read discussing postmodernism
as the root of the current campus insanity crisis. An excerpt from
Scientific American: How has it come to this? One of many trends
was identified by Weinstein in a Wall Street Journal essay: “The
button-down empirical and deductive fields, including all…

It was apocalypse now on Brian Stelter’s CNN show today. Under the
guise of discussing how the media should be reporting the issue,
the topic at hand was how and whether President Trump should be
removed from office. Historian Douglas Brinkley was the most
partisan panelist, saying “we all know” that Trump…

Republicans have far less confidence in higher education than their
Democratic counterparts. With the current college campus climate,
it’s not terribly difficult to see why. Both parties come to the
table with varying perspectives though, and that plays into the
vast difference in perception of higher education. From Inside
Higher Ed: Not only do…

The RNC has continued its dominance over the DNC when it comes to
fundraising in 2017. The Republicans managed to raise $10.2 million
in July compared to the Democrats’ $3.8 million in July. One would
think with all the negative media coverage of President Donald
Trump and the GOP in Congress not…

What’s the difference between charter schools and public schools?
Their proliferation means they must have some value, right? Prager
U’s latest discusses: Teachers unions and other public school
activists fight against them. Parents, teachers, and non-profit
groups rally for them. What are they? Answer: Charter schools, and
they are becoming a bigger part…

Secretary of Treasury Steve Mnuchin faced calls to resign from his
Yale classmates in light of President Donald Trump’s reaction to
the violence in Charlottesville, VA. Mnuchin has a simple answer:
NO. Mnuchin’s classmates from the Yale College Class of 1985 seem
convinced that Trump supports Nazis and white supremacists. They
wrote: We do…

Monuments to Confederate soldiers aren’t the only memorials being
target by social justice vandals. Not only was a statue of St. Joan
of Arc in New Orleans tagged with “Tear it Down” graffiti, a
sculpture of another Catholic state looks as if it has been the
target of vandalism this week. Several people…